Westvale Abbey

Land

{T}: Add {C}.

{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.

{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap this.

Tokens

• Human Cleric 1/1 WB

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Andramalech on Westvale Atlas

1 month ago

Zigen you are found amongst friends, singing the praises of your favor. Westvale Abbey  ^Flip GOAT status!

Zigen on Westvale Atlas

1 month ago

Any deck that uses Westvale Abbey  ^Flip gets my vote

Balaam__ on EDH (Elvish Demon Highlander)

1 month ago

Thanks for posting, everyone! Glad to be the purveyor of nostalgia. artcwolf22, I think those are all solid suggestions.

Andramalech and I have been discussing building Westvale Abbey  ^Flip elves in the background and his thoughts echo your own. There’s a consensus that a ‘best version’ of this deck exists, but I deliberately trod a different path. I’m going down with the ship and sticking to my ‘there can be only one [green pip]’ motif, so someone else will have to take up the crusade and perfect what I started here. For what it’s worth, I would very much like to see the ultimate version of this deck. I trend toward creativity not technical proficiency when I design decks—finely tuned competitive design is mostly outside my wheelhouse, barring a few specific archetypes.

Balaam__ on EDH (Elvish Demon Highlander)

1 month ago

Thanks Andramalech, I was hoping you’d appreciate this. I hadn’t seen the card Shifting Woodland before and I’ll be adding that once I get a chance. A couple of the others were great suggestions strictly speaking, but I won’t be running them because they break the ‘one {G} per spell’ self imposed rule.

As for running just one Westvale Abbey  ^Flip, it’s probably more logical to build it out that way, but it would require a few ‘search&retrieve’ spells that would once again break the ‘one {G} only’ restriction. This was the most reliable method I found to ensure it gets played, since it’s really the only wincon here.

Balaam__ on Westvale Atlas

1 month ago

Westvale Abbey  ^Flip is a really great card thematically speaking; I’ve tried to build around it myself on a few occasions, but all my attempts never went anywhere.

I think what you have here is technically sound with lots of internal card synergies. Glaring Fleshraker goes down early and literally everything you have feeds him, spilling nicely into an early Hand of Emrakul. That alone is threatening enough, but funneling those tokens into Westvale Abbey  ^Flip is no longer just a pipe dream.

Supporting stuff looks great too; Mystic Forge is a given and I’m guessing it proves super useful, but other choices like Inscribed Tablet left me scratching my head a bit. I suppose it has niche use cases though.

You’ve put a lot of thought into this and it shows. I’d clean up the maybeboard, get all that superfluous stuff out of there and dress up the description a bit and mint a nice gold master of this build.

Argy on CecilCêcil (Forgetful Fish in Orzhov)

5 months ago

I have an Orzhov deck I have worked on for ages.

This is the mana base. It might give you some ideas.

2x Blighted Fen
4x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
2x Castle Locthwain
4x Caves of Koilos
4x Godless Shrine
4x Shambling Vent
1x Swamp
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

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I use these for draw. Ob Nixilis Reignited, and Sorin, Grim Nemesis

It might feel like they are too late to help. If you have a midrange deck, turn five is really when you run out of cards.

rjqp on Profane Prince interaction with Reanimate

10 months ago

Hi all. I only ever play casually with friends and family so I'm not very knowledgeable about the rules:

1. Does Ormendahl, Profane Prince  ^Flip go back to being Westvale Abbey  ^Flip when it leaves the battlefield?

2. If no, if I Reanimate it, does it enter as its land side or creature side?

A quick explanation about the whys and the hows would be greatly appreciated! I am keen to learn. Thank you!

Belfore on Hail Caesar - Token Generator

1 year ago

Hey sorry for the short first post did it right before sleep. And thanks Crow_Umbra for getting that Isshin info to Merk-A-Do. I have a few other suggestions that I think will help the deck. Personally I would consider dropping both Public Thoroughfare and Exotic Orchard for something like Vault of the Archangel or maybe Westvale Abbey  ^Flip for one of those 2 and Myriad Landscape for the other. The reason being that even though you are 3 colors the Orchard could potentially only tap for a green or blue which is little to no use to you. As for the Thoroughfare it both enters the battlefield tapped and you have to pay something to it which will slow you down just a bit more, and that could cost you a precious turn.

I am also confused as to why you have Krenko, Mob Boss in there. Don't get me wrong great commander for goblins but not too sure he would stay in play long enough for you to utilize him very well. You might consider Myrel, Shield of Argive or Teysa, Orzhov Scion